just an hour ago i was playing around in a maverick while i was talking on my phone to a friend....i started heading due west just to see how far it would let me go...i kept a safehouse icon directly behind me and just kept flying west for about 15 minutes...after that i got off the phone and whipped a 180 to start heading back toward the city completely convinced that i had hit an invisible wall that just made it look as though i was flying straight and it would take about a minute to get back....wrong....it literally took me 15 minutes to fly back to the city....unbelievable...does anyone know how far it goes.....is san andreas out there?...lol....that would be one hell of an easter egg huh?....i can tell you this....that in the map menu my icon was nowhere on the map till the last 3 minutes or so.....and if it goes that far in all directions there could be some hidden island or something right?....is vice city due south?....im not sure i have the patience to see how far it goes....might have something to do with xbox DLC.....they said there would be two updates by christmas...maybe one is san andreas and one is vice city?...all i know is that the ocean is massive.

you probably dont know this but all GTA's have that, in San Andreas you can just keep going, its just endless water that just copies itslef i presume. ie, they havent actually modeled the whole ocean it just keeps loading the same stuff...so no there is no other island out there LOL

yeah blalace i get the whole ocean reloading thing...i kinda figured that...and no in previous games it let you go out a ways but then you definately hit a wall and then it only took like a minute to get back to land....and the ocean does that like every square mile all over the game even close to shore...it saves memory space...what i am saying is that i was spacially 15 minutes from the city....not on some loop that when i turned around it took a minute to get back....i was way out there with other choppers and boats...the whole nine.....somebody with some time to kill needs to go till they cant go no more....i was even wondering if you would end up flying towards the eastern seaboard eventually....

the others...lol...how cool would that be?....just follow this bering...hahaha....i just did it...i flew due west for exactly 15 minutes and then my health slowly started to go down till i died....oh well...at least now we know...

Heh, everyone does know that GTA IV used the full disc capacity of the 360, right? There is no room for anything else. Which is why North are hinting at the next GTA IV being exclusive to the PS3, lest of course the X-Box 180 is out by then.

Well if I were Rockstar I'd just make the game require a 360 with a hard drive. One or two disks install to the hard drive and then there is a play disk. That's the only way to eliminate disk swapping. They could ship the next gta with a hard drive packaged with it. All in all the choice to ship Cores with no hard drive was a bad idea. I beleive burn out paradise requires a hard drive for online play. If the 360 is going to have the life it's predicted to games will have to start requiring hard drives. Kind of like the nintendo64 having games that required that jump pack with extra ram on it.

yeah on the 360 its only west that lets you go that far...and when you go to the map screen it doesnt show your icon but it does show an awful lotta space to the west...im sure it has some thing to do with the dlc....probably just another add on island representing south jersey...lol

Heh, everyone does know that GTA IV used the full disc capacity of the 360, right? There is no room for anything else. Which is why North are hinting at the next GTA IV being exclusive to the PS3, lest of course the X-Box 180 is out by then. tongue

Wrong!

xbox 360 disc can hold up to 9gb.
GTA IV was only 6.38gb.

GTA IV was not compressed if it was there would of been load times in the city.

2.5gb can be compressed down to 1gb.

If I remember right you can fit 18gb or 22gb compressed on a 360 disc.

lol me and my friend went about 20 minutes out and we started losing health. we used the cheat for more and health and eventually the helicopter crashed itself and we completely dissapeared. luckily we spawned an invisible boat and were able to find it with the shadow. We were eventually killed at random by a weird wooshing noise and an invinsible explosion.

You sound about right, but then again they might just add new missions to the current maps. Seems like less work.

Oh, and does anyone know why Nico can't swim underwater? It seems like an odd thing to exclude.
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Because i don't want to look for sea shells or whatever.

haha ive been at this for awhile and im still going with patience i wonder how far i can go lol strange i dont run out of gas just doing this. it be pretty funny if it did id be stuck god knows where i cant even see my characters position lol he is way out of sight now but im laughing i did this one in gta san andreas and i ran into a pole with a plane now that was weird lol but i have no idea where it came from but i crashed hard lol but i tried it again in the same exact place and i didnt find it but if u guys find any places be sure to let me kno

In response to the original post, maybe when the PC version comes out, we'll be able to look through the files and see every little thing in the game. Of course, if someone has a modded console they could do this with the console version.

The worst thing happened to me . My first day playing GTA IV i decided to get a helicopter and fly all the out of the map. I was in the air for about 13 minutes flying north. My friend was flying next to me and crashed me. We both fell in the water and tried too swim back it took us like 30 minutes just to get on the map. I hated my friend after that.

I found that in San Andreas, when you go far enough, the game actually turns you into the opposite direction without you knowing. Basically, you would return back to where you left the city if you kept going out into the ocean.

i got in a boat and headed north for about 15 minutes. then i taped the button down, shut the tv off and went to bed. got up next morning and turned the tv on, still going.....left the tape on and turned around....and hour later, still going.....i shut it off and played from the last saved point.

^^^ Wow am I tired of hearing that. If you believe that you're retarded.

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Did you follow GTAIV's development at all? North said during the development on the PS3 that they were extremely interested in what the console had to offer, even stating that possibilities seemed extensive. If they start development on GTAV using the PS3(which is quite possible) I would be wholly surprised if years into the development they decided to restrict themselves by making it a dual platform title.

Thus, it is no more retarded to say that that shall certainly not be the case.